1799
year
The year 1799 (MDCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday Julian calendar. It was the 1799th year of the Common Era (CE) and the Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 799th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1799, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
Decades: | 1760s 1770s 1780s – 1790s – 1800s 1810s 1820s |
Years: | 1796 1797 1798 – 1799 – 1800 1801 1802 |
Events change
- March 1 – Federalist James Ross becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate.
- March 7 – Napoleon captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
- March 29 – New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.
- July 7 – Ranjit Singh's men had taken their positions outside Lahore.
- July 15 – In the Egyptian port city of Rosetta, French Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone.
- July 25 – At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottoman Mamluk troops under Mustafa Pasha.
- November 9 – Napoleon overthrows the French Directory.
- December – Napoleon becomes First Consul.
- The Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
- The Place Royale in Paris is renamed Place des Vosges when the Department of Vosges becomes the first to pay new Revolutionary taxes.
- The American System of manufacturing is invented.
Births
- for more information, see Category:1799 births.
- April 17 - Edward Williams Clay, American artist (d. 1857)
Deaths
- for more information, see Category:1799 deaths.
- August 29 – Pope Pius VI, Roman Catholic pope during the French revolution. (b. 1717)